Psalm 79:12 {78:12}
Good News Translation
Lord, pay the other nations back seven times for all the insults they have hurled at you.

New Revised Standard Version
Return sevenfold into the bosom of our neighbors the taunts with which they taunted you, O Lord!

Contemporary English Version
Each of those nations sneered at you, our Lord. Now let others sneer at them, seven times as much.

New American Bible
Turn back sevenfold into the bosom of our neighbors the insult with which they insulted you, Lord.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And render to our neighbours sevenfold in their bosom: the reproach wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And render to our neighbours sevenfold in their bosom: the reproach wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

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Genesis 4:15 And the Lord said to him: No, it shall not so be: but whosoever shall kill Cain, shall be punished sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, that whosoever found him should not kill him.

Leviticus 26:21,28 If you walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you for your sins. . . .

Isaiah 65:5-7 That say: Depart from me, come not near me, because thou art unclean: these shall be smoke in my anger, a fire burning all the day. . . .

Jeremiah 32:18 Thou shewest mercy unto thousands, and returnest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: O most mighty, great, and powerful, the Lord of hosts is thy name.

Luke 6:38 Give: and it shall be given to you: good measure and pressed down and shaken together and running over shall they give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you shall mete withal, it shall be measured to you again.

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Psalm 44:16 All the day long my shame is before me: and the confusion of my face hath covered me,

Psalm 74:18-22 Remember this, the enemy hath reproached the Lord: and a foolish people hath provoked thy name. . . .

Context
A Prayer for Deliverance
11Let the sighing of the prisoners come in before thee. According to the greatness of thy arm, take possession of the children of them that have been put to death. 12And render to our neighbours sevenfold in their bosom: the reproach wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.13But we thy people, and the sheep of thy pasture, will give thanks to thee for ever. We will shew forth thy praise, unto generation and generation.…
Cross References
Luke 6:38
Give: and it shall be given to you: good measure and pressed down and shaken together and running over shall they give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you shall mete withal, it shall be measured to you again.

Genesis 4:15
And the Lord said to him: No, it shall not so be: but whosoever shall kill Cain, shall be punished sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, that whosoever found him should not kill him.

Leviticus 26:21
If you walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you for your sins.

Leviticus 26:28
I will also go against you with opposite fury: and I will chastise you with seven plagues for your sins,

Nehemiah 4:4
Hear thou our God, for we are despised: turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them to be despised in a land of captivity.

Psalm 12:6
The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried by the fire, purged from the earth, refined seven times.

Psalm 35:13
But as for me, when they were troublesome to me, I was clothed with haircloth. I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer shall be turned into my bosom.

Psalm 74:10
How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach: is the adversary to provoke thy name for ever?

Psalm 74:18
Remember this, the enemy hath reproached the Lord: and a foolish people hath provoked thy name.

Psalm 119:164
Seven times a day I have given praise to thee, for the judgments of thy justice.

Psalm 129:7
Who with the mower filleth not his hand: nor he that gathereth sheaves his bosom.

Proverbs 6:31
But he that is an adulterer, for the folly of his heart shall destroy his own soul:

Proverbs 24:16
For a just man shall fall seven times, and shall rise again: but the wicked shall fall down into evil.

Isaiah 30:26
And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days: in the day when the Lord shall bind up the wound of his people, and shall heal the stroke of their wound.

Isaiah 65:6
Behold it is written before me: I will not be silent, but I will render and repay into their bosom.

Isaiah 65:7
Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord, who have sacrificed upon the mountains, and have reproached me upon the hills; and I will measure back their first work in their bosom.

Jeremiah 32:18
Thou shewest mercy unto thousands, and returnest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: O most mighty, great, and powerful, the Lord of hosts is thy name.

Psalm 79:11
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